Downfall is perhaps one of the most well acted movies I've had the chance of seeing. It deals with people and topics that aren't easy to depict on screen because it does leave almost no one for the viewer to connect with in a movie, but somehow the director pulls it off and somehow really shows us what it would have been like to be around Hitler in his final days. Oliver Hirschbiegel bases his story on a memoir, and researches the story of Hitler's final months very well. He leaves almost no angle undiscovered, and if there are multiple views to how something happened he weaves it all in, such as the contradicting perceptions of how Hitler died.
Summary: Traudl Jung travels to Berlin, Germany in 1945 to be Hitler's secretary only months before he will commit suicide. Through her eyes you see his growing paranoia, and acceptance that he has lost as the Soviet Armies moves in on Berlin where he resides. Traudl also comes in contact with Hitler's wife, Eva,who marries him only a day before they kill themselves. Hitler though doesn't end the war with his death though, and the remaining military officers must figure out how to stop the Battle of Berlin against the Soviets.
